---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: satchidanandan k <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 9:03 AM Subject: RE: [GreenYouth] Re: sachimash on amitavghosh To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
There are many Bhojpuri folksongs in the book, this is sung by rural women on occasions of wedding.The best lines in the book are what the girmitiyas, the bonded labourers , sing as they leave their land forever:Kaise kate ab/Biraha ka ratiya/( How will it pass/This night of parting)It will be best if we do not apply the elite idea of obscenity to folk and Dalit songs and poems.Reading contemporary Dalit writing may cure us of this fear of the 'asleel' as defined by Sanskrit poetics.Unfortuanately the progressives too have absorbed a lot of this elitist inhibition. *Look at things from below. * ------------------------------ -- Dileep R I thuravoor --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
